Cycling Championships (1923)

Item title reads - Cycling championship contests. Our specially designed camera, the only one of its kind in Britain shows you close up pictures of actual racing. Herne Hill, London. M/S as the cyclists race along, the camera stays with the leaders as they cycle round, M/S as one speeds ahead and gets faster, M/S of all the cyclists again. Intertitle - ’A thrilling finish in the old fashioned penny farthing bikes race.’ M/S of four penny farthings racing along. M/S of two quite close together, one overtakes the other. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Ga